A somewhat good night’s rest, homemade grape jelly on my toast, my carpet being professionally cleaned today (don’t you love potty training?), knitting/book club tonight, and love from my three amazing boys is how I begin my 28th year.  Not too bad if I don’t say so myself. It’s funny how things change though isn’t it?  My standards for a good birthday are quite different now a days.  But one thing that hasn’t changed for some odd reason- its that crazy excited feeling I get just simply because its my day.  Although when your little, expectations for said day often are set too high, and tend to result in drama.  But now that i’m a mama I feel just happy I guess!  Pretty sweet.  Miles already serenaded me with his rendition of happy birthday then proceeded to thank me for what? I’m not too sure, but I liked it.  Honestly, the day went pretty much the way it always does (minus the squirrel I can’t get out of my house).

We went on a bike ride…

We played marbles…

we went to tumble and splash at the Y…

and I made a little cake for myself with some of my grape jelly that didn’t quite set all the way as frosting.  It’s a sponge cake recipe from a very old and well used copy of The New York Times Cookbook.  It’s all eggs and a little flour mostly.  A nice one for decorating if you should choose to.  I would have liked a whip cream frosting over the top… but all I had was light whip cream and we all know that won’t do.

Interesting looking right?  I think the color is nice and grape jelly is a lot easier to make then I imagined.  Also, it’s a good use for grapes with seeds in them because you just strain them right out!  Well, here is to another trip around the sun!  Happy birthday to me!